Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
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The forgotten coup – how America and Britain crushed the government of their ‘ally’, Australia
Originally published on Johnpilger.com Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime...
It Can Happen To Anyone: How I Became Radicalized
This article was originally published on This Can't Be Happening by John Grant I saw the masked men Throwing truth into a well. When I began to weep for it I...
The Pentagon’s Commemorating the Vietnam War. So Should We
by James W Loewen According to the “DOD Vietnam War Commemoration Program,” the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the Department of Defense...
Marjorie Cohn | US Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History
This article originally appeared on Truth Out by Marjorie Cohn. Image credit Wystan For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the "Vietnam syndrome,"...
Our American mythology: What we’re all getting wrong about veterans
This article originally appeared on Salon.com by Paul Rosenberg Our American mythology: What we're all getting wrong about veteransEnlargeThe Vietnam Veterans...
When Military Brass Turn Pundits
by DENNY RILEY I’ve been concerned about top officers in our military stepping up to the microphone and announcing their opinions on what the foreign policy...
From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves”
John Pilger In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on...
The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.
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“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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